It is a very faithful adaptation, with the exception of the setting being moved to Scotland from Spain, and the genders of the main characters being reversed. Foreign Remake: A Bollywood remake of the film, titled Badla ('revenge' in Hindi) was released in early 2019.By the end, it's revealed to be a total lie by Adrian, who was responsible for all the things he accused Laura of doing. Her tone of voice implies a certain skepticism at this characterization. Virginia points out that Laura seems very much like this in Adrian's story, with her taking the initiative in covering up the murder and using unscrupulous means to keep the truth hidden. Extremely Short Timespan: The film takes place over one night excluding the flashback sequences.Engineered Public Confession: Goodman makes Adrian confess to his crimes in private while their conversation is actually being Caught on Tape.She then notices blood dropping from the car and tries to conceal it with her legs.
The invisible guest driver#
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When Adrian mentions a particularly dark part of the story, Virginia seems to get flustered and starts loudly throwing all sorts of insults at him, when he responds she claims it was an example of what the prosecution would do to get him to display that same behavior in front of the judge.The fact that Elvira and Tomás met during acting classes is mentioned in passing but later becomes a plot point.The golden lighter in the car which Tomás Garrido later sees again on Adrian.Caught on Tape: A bugged ball-point pen is used to record Adrian's confession.That was just a ploy by Laura to get the family some money as part of her trying to take responsibility for the murder. Blackmail: We are to assume that the bypassing driver blackmailed Adrian for 100,000.